Enchanted Oasis:
A Yoga Retreat in Morocco
March 29 through April 5, 2025
or
April 5 through 12, 2025
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Join Sheila Ewers and Dennis and Kathy Lang for an intimate, soulful retreat in stunning Morocco.
This is an intimate and luxurious experience at a boutique hotel in an olive grove on the outskirts of Marrakesh. You will join a small group of like-minded travelers to immerse in the vibrant and dynamic culture, explore the Medina and colorful marketplace, travel to the seaside village of Essaouira, learn to cook with exotic spices and flavors, hike in the breathtaking Atlas Mountains, and anchor it all with daily yoga and mindfulness.
What’s Included:
Accommodations in a luxuriously appointed room
All meals on premises, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner on days we are at the retreat center
Day trip to Essaouira for exploration
Tour of the Medina including historical sites and souks
Traditional Hammam and Massage
Visit to the Jardin Majorelle and Yves St. Lauren Museum
Hiking in the Atlas Mountains
Farewell Celebration with lots of surprises!
Round Trip Airport transfers
What’s Not Included:
Airfare
Gratuity for Peacock Pavilions staff
Extra gratuity at your own discretion
Alcohol with meals
Mini bar in room
Laundry
Snacks/lunches offsite
Extra massages
$750 Deposit due now to reserve your space, ½ remaining balance due November 1, 2024, Final balance due February 1, 2025.
Accommodations
Located in a private olive grove 15 kilometers outside of Marrakech, Peacock Pavilions is a unique alternative to a traditional riad.
Peacock Pavilions is a hand-built, artisanal property. Featured in dozens of magazines and television shows, the hotel is a favorite location for travelers in the know, yoga and creative retreats, and celebrations of all kinds. The estate is comprised of three pavilions and two luxury bungalows: the Main Pavilion, the Atlas Pavilion, the Medina Pavilion, the Dawn Rising and Dusk Falling Bungalows, as well as outdoor areas blossoming with colorful roses and beautiful landscaping.
We understand that booking transportation can be daunting! Don’t let that stop you from fulfilling a travel dream! Sheila is more than happy to guide you through the travel booking process if you need help. Email Sheila with any questions you may have.
About Your Host
Sheila is an ERYT 500 and YACEP teacher certified through Yoga Alliance. She trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and has been practicing and teaching for more than 20 years. In 2011, she created Blue Lotus Yoga, LLC which operated in two physical location in Johns Creek and Duluth, GA, Under Blue Lotus, she also launched a comprehensive online studio platform and developed Sweet Tea Yoga Festival in Alpharetta, GA. She is a published author and served as Yoga Editor for Natural Awakenings Atlanta Magazine from 2019 through 2021.
Today, Sheila owns and operates SEEK Yoga and Travel, a full service yoga platform designed to help students and seekers of all sorts develop tools for deepening consciousness, developing connection and living lives of joyful embodiment. Sheila holds additional certifications in Meditation, Yin Yoga, Thai Yoga, Bodywork, and Yoga Nidra and has trained with dozens of internationally known yoga and meditation teachers. She leads Yoga Teacher Training at both the 200 and 300-hour levels, hosts retreats and workshops both domestically and internationally and provides spiritual and professional coaching. As a former Professor of American literature, Sheila loves to explore the intersection between philosophy, poetry, religion, nature, and yoga and often brings that synthesis into her work. She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to train and learn and will forever consider herself a student of this ancient and beautiful practice.
(You’ll need to adjust the dates to the retreat dates when Wellness Living pops up!)
Images on this page are courtesy of Peacock Pavilions, and Sergey Pesterev, Zakariae Daoui, and Victoriano Izquierdo via Unsplash.
About Dennis and Kathy Lang
We are teachers of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices with E-RYT500 certifications from the Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC and are lifelong students and practitioners. We are also YACEP certified (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider).
We bring a different perspective to yoga instruction by co-teaching… a blend of Yin and Yang energies. Our abundance of knowledge, practice, and experience draws from our studies and attendance of many national workshops across the country including training with Rodney Yee, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, Sean Corn, Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers, and others. Our style is influenced by the traditions of Kripalu, Kundalini, Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Yin and Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Having traveled overseas extensively to over 40 countries, we have a broad view with much cultural exposure.
Our beginning in yoga was like the blossoming of a lotus flower; a seed was planted within us during our first yoga class back in 2000. At that time we were both highly stressed, out of balance corporate types leading a very dynamic and driven lifestyle. Our corporate lives had served us well, but were not fulfilling our true essence and it was beginning to negatively affect our health and happiness. As we deepened our yoga practice and studies, we began to ask the big life questions which led to our transformation.
The seed grew and culminated in the re-invention of ourselves, changing careers, becoming full time traveling yoga teachers, rebalancing and changing our diets. Our yoga is not tied to any one tradition and not restricted as we love them all. We consider ourselves as non-demoninational yogis!
One cannot simply read and theorize; one must practice and take that practice inward to experience the multiple layers and terrain of ourself. We integrate our studies of the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, energetic anatomy, Chakra Theory and Daoism, as well as other sources into our teaching. As musicians, we have added the modalities of sound and vibration as a key experience and ingredient with meditative instrumentals of guitar, Sitar, crystal bowls, Native American flute, drums, and gong.
Yes, we are teachers, but we consider ourselves more as guides or facilitators of an experience. Through our travels now, we want to share the potential of yoga as it was shared with us. We believe that yoga is about relationships; first, you with yourself, then you with the world and the divine. So with us, the practice is not a “work out”, but very much a “work-in”.